Sharron hunt munson biography
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“There are more underdogs in the world than there are favorites. Our win was enjoyed by so many people because they are underdogs like we were. We’re all underdogs from time to time.” Joseph William Namath, AARP Bulletin, January-February 2019 page 38
Mr. Namath was referring to the game between the American Football League New York Jets and the National Football League Baltimore Colts on January 12, 1969 at the Miami apelsinfärg Bowl in Florida. Very few believed that the Jets could prevail over the Colts, but as sports history shows, the Jets were triumphant 16 to 7 in one of the biggest upsets in sports history.
Underdogs should never be discounted. They have an uncanny way of showing their true colors when the chips are down or when the pigskin is on the goal line.
This was the first game to be referred to officially as the Super Bowl. The previous two games were the AFL-NFL Championship won bygd Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers of the NFL against the Kansas City Chiefs
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This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
The Kansas City Chiefs are used to making headlines. From their star quarterback Patrick Mahomes and controversial kicker Harrison Butker to their connections to Taylor Swift and, of course, their upcoming fifth Super Bowl appearance in the last seven seasons, it's hard to imagine a time when people weren't talking about the Chiefs.
That's good news for the Hunt family, who've owned the team since the beginning.
The Chiefs were founded by Lamar Hunt Sr. in 1959 as the Dallas Texans, but the team has been in Kansas City since 1963. Now, team ownership is divided between his children, Clark Hunt, Sharron Hunt Munson, Daniel Hunt, and Lamar Hunt Jr. with principal decision-making falling to Clark, who's been the team's CEO since 2010.
Ahead of Sunday's big game, Clark Hunt told "The Rich Eisen Show" that his father, who died in 2006, "would be absolutely thrilled" about the prospect of a Chiefs Super Bowl three-peat, adding
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Lamar Hunt
American businessman (1932–2006)
American football player
Lamar Hunt Sr. (August 2, 1932 – December 13, 2006) was an American businessman most notable for his promotion of football, soccer, and tennis in the United States. With his brothers, he also attempted to corner the silver market.
He was the principal founder of the American Football League (AFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS), as well as MLS's predecessor, the North American Soccer League (NASL), and co-founder of World Championship Tennis. He was also the founder and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL), the Kansas City Wizards of MLS, and at the time of his death owned two other MLS teams, Columbus Crew and FC Dallas. In Kansas City, Hunt also helped establish the Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun theme parks.
The oldest ongoing national soccer tournament in the United States, the U.S. Open Cup (founded 1914), now bears his name in honor of his pioneering role in that spo